For the March Daring bakers’ challenge, Korena from Korena in the Kitchen taught us that some treats are best enjoyed upside down. She challenged us to make a tarte tatin from scratch. This months Daring Bakers challenge was to make a tarte tatin, sweet...

When summer fruit season ends, I usually mourn until I hit the market and discover the autumn bounty of figs, apples and pears. Especially the pears. For out of hand, sweet juice dripping down your chin, eating, I'm partial to Bartletts. But for any cooking...

Cooking: 35 min Pear preserves are topped with a cinnamon-ginger crumble in this pear ginger crisp to create a simple cool-weather dessert. Last Thursday was one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days. I just couldn’t seem to do anything right. I bought ingredients...

Preparation: 30 min - Cooking: 45 min You’d think that once fall weather hits and the peak season for most berries and fruits passes, you’d have less to do as a canner. Nope! At least, not in the northeast. Apples and pears are on their way (and I LOVE me some pear preserves!). The tomato plants...

Flashback 12 months ago, to the day. This was me. I was three nights shy of welcoming Will into the world. It was the end of 40 Weeks of Feasting. I was harried. I was on the cusp of signing the deal for Cut the Carbs and madly testing recipes while listening...

Day 78: Good morning folks! Hope your day kicked off well and is going smoothly. If you are wondering what I am doing so chirpy and bright in the morning, oh well spring is in the air and I have a lunch date with the girls. Jokes apart, as part of our plans...

I've made some wonderful friends through cake. It's pretty weird to think that had it not been for my move away from the muffin period and into the bundt obsession, I would never have started Bolton Clandestine Cake Club, and some of my closest friends...

Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 45 min There were 6 pears, sitting on my kitchen table, just begging to be eaten–scratch that–made into dessert. I decided on a making a simple crisp–you know, just baked fruit, with a buttery, oatmeal topping. Then I started thinking about ginger and that bag...

Raw Pear & Ginger Buckwheat Porridge I’ve been feeling a bit down lately and lacking some daily zip and zing. It’s nothing to be concerned about and not really caused by any particular event but more of a cyclic occurrence I’ve had to become aware of over...

This Monday we have one recipe and four excellent pear muffin variations for you. The original recipe ‘Pear and Date Muffins’ hails from The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein. My version is without dates and substitutes water for buttermilk: two small...

These individual cheesecakes are a healthier twist on the classic dessert with dried pears, gingersnaps and canola oil. Sugar plums will be dancing in your head with each bite! “Skinny Mini Holiday Desserts” Recipe Collection is available at CanolaInfo.org....

These individual cheesecakes are a healthier twist on the classic dessert with dried pears, gingersnaps and canola oil. Sugar plums will be dancing in your head with each bite! “Skinny Mini Holiday Desserts” Recipe Collection is available at CanolaInfo.org....

I think this idea of making individual cakes in glasses or jars is really nice and fun. To me such a dessert is so homely, cosy, but quite festive as well. This dessert here is a rum chocolate cake, layered with caramelised ginger, rum and vanilla pears...

I have a love/hate relationship with pears. Admittedly, they can be gorgeous to behold, all fall-like in their appearance. It makes me want to take a juicy bite out of one before I even leave the store. Unfortunately, I've been betrayed more than once by...

I had a hard time taking this picture, because of the light. In the summertime I could take pictures of my food outside, in perfect light, just before we ate it. Lately it’s been harder and harder. It’s often dark … Continue reading →

Upside-down pear and ginger cake - does it look yum or what? A long-awaited visit from old friends from America was all it took to make me try this latest find from the November issue of Olive– I have to add the words Comfort Food Special were writ large...

I had gotten these wonderful pears from the Farmer's Market, and in typical Becky fashion, I let then get a wee bit too ripe on the counter. So before they completely disintegrated, I figured I would juice them. Pear Apple Ginger Juice 3 pears 1 apple*...

Experimenting with cocktails in the summer is as easy as a trip to the fruit stand. Smelling ripe fruit at the market instantly brought ideas for new refreshments but not all fruit lend themselves well to being pureed. If the fruit is not particularly juicy...